New Republic writer and now blogger Gregg Easterbrook says that Schwarzenegger could not possibly have written the op-ed under his name in the Wall Street Journal yesterday.

As someone who has taken shots at Hillary Clinton for pretending to be the author of her ghostwritten "Personal History," I would be remiss if I did not take a shot at Arnold Schwarzenegger...

Set aside that he's an airhead, though his instinct to admire Milton Friedman is right. (During last night's California gubernatorial debate I kept waiting for one the candidates to point at AHH-nold and say, "You're an airhead! And everybody knows it!" Wouldn't that have gotten the central fact of the Schwarzenegger candidacy on the table?) Schwarzenegger could not possibly have written the article "by" him because it contains an error on one of the few subjects on which he is a thoughtful observer, his acting career.

The article says, "Messrs Davis and Bustamante remind me of the androids I kept fighting in the 'Terminator' movies." They weren't androids!...There's no way AHH-nold himself could have missed an error that has to do with one of his own movies. This means he not only didn't write the article; he never read it.

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